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A Comprehensive Survey of Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Theories, Tools and Challenges for the Community
In recent years, deep learning (DL), a re-branding of neural networks (NNs),
has risen to the top in numerous areas, namely computer vision (CV), speech
recognition, natural language processing, etc. Whereas remote sensing (RS)
possesses a number of unique challenges, primarily related to sensors and
applications, inevitably RS draws from many of the same theories as CV; e.g.,
statistics, fusion, and machine learning, to name a few. This means that the RS
community should be aware of, if not at the leading edge of, of advancements
like DL. Herein, we provide the most comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art
RS DL research. We also review recent new developments in the DL field that can
be used in DL for RS. Namely, we focus on theories, tools and challenges for
the RS community. Specifically, we focus on unsolved challenges and
opportunities as it relates to (i) inadequate data sets, (ii)
human-understandable solutions for modelling physical phenomena, (iii) Big
Data, (iv) non-traditional heterogeneous data sources, (v) DL architectures and
learning algorithms for spectral, spatial and temporal data, (vi) transfer
learning, (vii) an improved theoretical understanding of DL systems, (viii)
high barriers to entry, and (ix) training and optimizing the DL.Comment: 64 pages, 411 references. To appear in Journal of Applied Remote
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Hyperspectral Unmixing Overview: Geometrical, Statistical, and Sparse Regression-Based Approaches
Imaging spectrometers measure electromagnetic energy scattered in their
instantaneous field view in hundreds or thousands of spectral channels with
higher spectral resolution than multispectral cameras. Imaging spectrometers
are therefore often referred to as hyperspectral cameras (HSCs). Higher
spectral resolution enables material identification via spectroscopic analysis,
which facilitates countless applications that require identifying materials in
scenarios unsuitable for classical spectroscopic analysis. Due to low spatial
resolution of HSCs, microscopic material mixing, and multiple scattering,
spectra measured by HSCs are mixtures of spectra of materials in a scene. Thus,
accurate estimation requires unmixing. Pixels are assumed to be mixtures of a
few materials, called endmembers. Unmixing involves estimating all or some of:
the number of endmembers, their spectral signatures, and their abundances at
each pixel. Unmixing is a challenging, ill-posed inverse problem because of
model inaccuracies, observation noise, environmental conditions, endmember
variability, and data set size. Researchers have devised and investigated many
models searching for robust, stable, tractable, and accurate unmixing
algorithms. This paper presents an overview of unmixing methods from the time
of Keshava and Mustard's unmixing tutorial [1] to the present. Mixing models
are first discussed. Signal-subspace, geometrical, statistical, sparsity-based,
and spatial-contextual unmixing algorithms are described. Mathematical problems
and potential solutions are described. Algorithm characteristics are
illustrated experimentally.Comment: This work has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensin
Visualization of hyperspectral images on parallel and distributed platform: Apache Spark
The field of hyperspectral image storage and processing has undergone a remarkable evolution in recent years. The visualization of these images represents a challenge as the number of bands exceeds three bands, since direct visualization using the trivial system red, green and blue (RGB) or hue, saturation and lightness (HSL) is not feasible. One potential solution to resolve this problem is the reduction of the dimensionality of the image to three dimensions and thereafter assigning each dimension to a color. Conventional tools and algorithms have become incapable of producing results within a reasonable time. In this paper, we present a new distributed method of visualization of hyperspectral image based on the principal component analysis (PCA) and implemented in a distributed parallel environment (Apache Spark). The visualization of the big hyperspectral images with the proposed method is made in a smaller time and with the same performance as the classical method of visualization
Multisource and Multitemporal Data Fusion in Remote Sensing
The sharp and recent increase in the availability of data captured by
different sensors combined with their considerably heterogeneous natures poses
a serious challenge for the effective and efficient processing of remotely
sensed data. Such an increase in remote sensing and ancillary datasets,
however, opens up the possibility of utilizing multimodal datasets in a joint
manner to further improve the performance of the processing approaches with
respect to the application at hand. Multisource data fusion has, therefore,
received enormous attention from researchers worldwide for a wide variety of
applications. Moreover, thanks to the revisit capability of several spaceborne
sensors, the integration of the temporal information with the spatial and/or
spectral/backscattering information of the remotely sensed data is possible and
helps to move from a representation of 2D/3D data to 4D data structures, where
the time variable adds new information as well as challenges for the
information extraction algorithms. There are a huge number of research works
dedicated to multisource and multitemporal data fusion, but the methods for the
fusion of different modalities have expanded in different paths according to
each research community. This paper brings together the advances of multisource
and multitemporal data fusion approaches with respect to different research
communities and provides a thorough and discipline-specific starting point for
researchers at different levels (i.e., students, researchers, and senior
researchers) willing to conduct novel investigations on this challenging topic
by supplying sufficient detail and references
Fast reconstruction of hyperspectral radiative transfer simulations by using small spectral subsets: application to the oxygen A band
Hyperspectral radiative transfer simulations are a versatile tool in remote
sensing but can pose a major computational burden. We describe a simple
method to construct hyperspectral simulation results by using only a small
spectral subsample of the simulated wavelength range, thus leading to major
speedups in such simulations. This is achieved by computing principal
components for a small number of representative hyperspectral spectra and
then deriving a reconstruction matrix for a specific spectral subset of
channels to compute the hyperspectral data. The method is applied and
discussed in detail using the example of top-of-atmosphere radiances in the
oxygen A band, leading to speedups in the range of one to two orders of
magnitude when compared to radiative transfer simulations at full spectral
resolution
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